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Reservoir of Jazz @ the Highland Park Reservoir – Every Sunday in August

Another great FREE activity for your Sunday evenings. There is a great dedicated community group, I should say groups in Highland Park and the park and the surrounding areas just keep getting better. Enrico’s Tazzo D’Oro is just a few blocks from the park and rumor has it that Point Brugge will be opening a second location in Highland Park in the near future.  Sundays in August 5-7pm.

Reservoir of Jazz
Highland Avenue and Reservoir Drive

This summer you can once again relax on the lawn at Highland Park to the sounds of jazz performed by Pittsburgh’s finest musicians. Residents of the tri-state area look forward to the month of August each year to witness this showcase of the area’s extraordinary talent of jazz at the ever-popular Reservoir of Jazz series.

Sponsored by Highland Park Community Club, State Representative Joe Preston, BNY Mellon, DUQ 90.5 FM and New Pittsburgh Courier.


August 2 – Gerald “Shotgun” Haymon Collaboration

August 9 – Guitars of Pittsburgh Tribute featuring Joe Negri, Marty Ashby and Eric Susoeff (presented by MCG Jazz)

August 16 – Jazz Surgery with Tony Campbell

August 23 – Jeff Grubbs Quartet featuring Tania Grubbs

August 30 – Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra featuring Sean Jones

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Pittsburgh Marathon Events for Everyone Else

Even if you aren’t up for running 26 miles on Sunday May 3 there are tons of activites for everyone else to celebrate.

Over 20 bands will be preforming along the course – click here for a complete lists of bands.

Here is a run down of the neighborhoods that we could find…

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Learn Coffee at The Grind

I have this event marked on my calendar but I was grabbing some lunch yesterday at the Union Project and the flyer for this event really caught my eye. The printed version of this flyer is really beautiful as the printing is in gold metallic. Anyhow here is my list of reasons why you should attend this event, in no particular order:

  • learn about coffee from some of the best people in coffee in Pittsburgh – I really don’t know what the difference between a cappuccino and a latte is (yes – I have been pretending I know, but I really don’t) and I think it is about time I find out.
  • The people from Aldo Coffee are latte art experts and they have a great blog
  • La Prima Expresso is the most amazing coffee I have ever tasted – I wasn’t a coffee drinker until I discovered La Prima and I usually drive to the strip district on the weekends just to visit La Prima.
  • All proceeds benefit the Union Project
  • Snacks! I really like snacks
  • Who knew there was a Pittsburgh Area Coffee Association – PACA – they also have a website that links to more coffee place in Pittsburgh

One Pittsburgher's Trash, Is Another Pittsburgher's Treasure

It’s that time of year again… The Highland Park Community Yard Sale … the whole neighborhood puts their trash, I mean treasures outside for you to discover. I can’t seem to find a website for Highland Park, but the sale has been posted on Craigslist. Highland Park is filled with interesting people that have lots of interesting stuff to sell. Continue reading →

Vendors Wanted – Community Days/Highland Park Yard Sale

The Highland Park Yard Sale is one of the biggest, baddest yard sales in town.  Some very interesting people, with some very interesting stuff live in Highland Park.

This year the Union Project is back in on the action with their community day.  They will open up their doors to vendors of all sorts of things.  So if you don’t live in Highland Park, you can come to Highland park and sell your stuff too.

COMMUNITY DAY VENDORS – CALLING ALL VENDORS, June 1st
We are very excited to announce that we are now taking vendor applications for the Community Day Vendor Fair, June 1st. This event is held in partnership with the Highland Park Yard Sale. This yard sale is not your average- there are detailed maps describing all that is available at each home and it attracts around 500-1000 people, depending on the weather. Because we had such a great response last year, we will be expanding the sale to inside as well. We will be providing breakfast/lunch specials, crafts to keep the kiddies happy, music and space for 50 craft vendors. We fill up very quickly, so please call Hilary with any questions at 412-363-4550 x26 or email her at Hilary@unionproject.org to get a vendor form. All forms are due by May 21st.